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OK, so why the zen bones thing?

About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.

Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.

Is the blog about Zen? Nope.


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April 19
Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared: Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users. New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month. 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.) Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API. Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day. Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day. Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet. Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.

Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats

Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared:

  • Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
  • New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
  • 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
  • 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
  • Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
  • Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
  • Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
  • Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
  • Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.

Tags: Twitter stats tech statistics
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April 17

South African Internet Growth Stats

“According to the Nielsen data, the number of South Africans accessing the Web at least monthly increased 53% year on year, to 7,5m people in the last quarter of 2009. Unique monthly browsers, both domestic and international, increased 52% to reach 14,9m.”

Tags: tech South Africa statistics
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April 3

400 billion Lego bricks

Apparently over 400 billion Lego bricks have been manufactured since 1949.

Stacked ontop of each other, that’s enough to connect the Earth and the Moon 10 times over!

Tags: Lego statistics Earth Moon
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April 2
Interesting statistic of the day Take a click through to this infographic. Don’t you think it’s amazing that the USA has only 48 mobile phones per 100 people - compared to the UK at 84 or even Icelnad at 90 per 100! And Canada - only 37 phones per 100. I really would have thought the US and Canada would be close to 100. Well, you learn something new everyday.

Interesting statistic of the day

Take a click through to this infographic. Don’t you think it’s amazing that the USA has only 48 mobile phones per 100 people - compared to the UK at 84 or even Icelnad at 90 per 100! And Canada - only 37 phones per 100.

I really would have thought the US and Canada would be close to 100. Well, you learn something new everyday.

Tags: mobile phones USA Canada charts infographic statistics
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February 4
The 2009 Felton Annual Report is out I look forward to consuming this every year. It just keeps on getting better and better. If you love the combination of charts, data, infographics, statistics, human behaviour and great design, you’ll love this. via Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com

The 2009 Felton Annual Report is out

I look forward to consuming this every year. It just keeps on getting better and better.

If you love the combination of charts, data, infographics, statistics, human behaviour and great design, you’ll love this.

via Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com

Tags: charts data infographics statistics human behaviour design
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